Evaluation of the statistical thinking of mathematics education  undergraduate students in the topic of graph literacy based on  the framework of Wilde and Pfannkuch

Azadi, Nafiseh; Reyhani, Ebrahim; Komijani, Anahita; Bahrami Samani, Ehsan

Evaluation of the statistical thinking of mathematics education undergraduate students in the topic of graph literacy based on the framework of Wilde and Pfannkuch

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Nafiseh Azadi ¹

Ebrahim Reyhani ²

Anahita Komijani ³

Ehsan Bahrami Samani ⁴

¹ PhD student at Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University

² Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran

³ PhD student at Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran

⁴ Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to investigate the statistical thinking of undergraduate student teachers in the field of
mathematics education in the topic of diagrammatic literacy based on the framework of Wilde and Fenkoch. For this purpose,
a questionnaire including 9 diagram literacy questions (box diagram) was designed. The questions were classified based on
the componentsoftheWildeandFenkochframework. Questionnairewascompletedby50studentteachersofmatheducation
of Farhangian University of Education and Training of the director of Shahid Darjaei (boys and girls). The responses were
leveled based on Watson’s framework, which is a modification of Solow’s model. The significance of the gender differences
of student teachers was not confirmed statistically. The findings showed that most of the student teachers’ answers in all
statistical components are at the relational level, but the results showed the average performance of the student teachers in
the components of statistical thinking in the topic of graph literacy.

Keywords

Student teachers

teachers

statistical thinking

graph literacy

Watson framework